In order to enable the listener to easier follow the text as adapted for this musical setting, the transliteration appears exactly as the words are sung on the recording, whereas the Yiddish text is the original poem.
yo, ikh gloyb un gloyb, batzving mayn hartz tzu gleybn, tzu gleybn
in teg akhris-hayomimdike, vos veln derheybn
dem mentshn-min fun ale toln fun geveynen.

Yes, I do believe, I affirm my faith
in days to come that will uplift humankind
from the vales of tears and misery,
when the sun of freedom will shine for all,
and all will joyously create and sing.
Generations will be bound in a golden chain,
straightened and uplifted in body and in spirit,
in a black-white-yellow brotherhood.
Pious and freethinkers, agnostics, men and women,
will celebrate in unison, trust each other.
Language and cultures will bloom and prosper,
humans like the angels, mortal gods.
Heroes will arise, not in Cain-slaughter,
but eager for knowledge and sensible deeds.
The earth will provide abundantly,
the seas and rivers will be multiplied
with fish and birds above of all kind.
A new reality will dawn, an Earthly Eden
of life and love, healing and forgiveness.
Poets will express and sing of this felicity –
yes, I do believe, I affirm my steadfast faith.